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Our team includes experienced and caring professionals who share the belief that our care should be comprehensive and courteous - responding fully to your individual needs and preferences.

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Dr. Vikas Aundkar is an experienced ENT Specialist in Opera House, Mumbai. He has had many happy patients in his 22 years of journey as a ENT Specialist. He has done MBBS, MS . He is currently practising at Dr Vikas Aundkar Clinic in Opera House, Mumbai. Book an appointment online with Dr. Vikas Aundkar and consult privately on Lybrate.com.

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Hello lybrate-user external nasal swelling with pain is dangerous and is probably due to a boil or furuncle causing nasal vestibulitis. Do not touch your nose.
A course of antibiotics need to be started urgently.
Anti inflammatory pain killers are also needed.
Nose drops antibiotic ointment are also needed.
Do not delay treatment.
You can share a pic of your nose on lybrate. I can then help you even more.
Hope this helps Dr. Amrita basu.

Cotton swabs or cotton buds, are commonly used in our daily lifestyle. Many people use it for various purposes, such as make-up, bacterial culture, and most commonly for extracting wax and debris from the ear. Even though they are sometimes handy in our busy schedule, they usually cause much more harm than benefits.

How are they misused?
Cotton buds are toothpick like pieces made of wood, plastic, or rolled paper, which have cotton stuck at both ends with a roundish edge. It came into existence during the 1920s for a safe purpose of ear cleaning by Leo Gerstenzang, when he saw his wife cleaning their baby’s ear with a toothpick. And, til now they are used by the general population for ear cleaning, but these hardly remove the outer debris which isstuck stuck near the outer edges. Impressing it inside the ear canal only does further damage, by forcing the inner wax further inside. Sometimes extensive force also causes damage to the ear drums.

How does it cause the damage?
Applying a tool like the cotton bud inside the ear with hands usually creates a force that impresses upon the eardrum, also accumulating the surrounding earwax to that area, resulting in impaction of the wax. The force applied most often, if not always, causes a damage to the ear drums, which might cause severe pain, also leading to leakage, causing improper balance, deafness, and certain similar abnormalities.

Alternative measuresAlthough we are worried about cleaning our ears, it doesn’t really require our notice, since our usual showers allow an adequate quantity of water to enter the ears and clean the accumulated debris automatically. The structure, in which our ear canal is designed, is usually naturally assisting in cleaning up the unusual wax around the ear.

If there is an uncontrollable build up of earwax that is not cleaned off normally, you can always consult an ENT or any general physician and get it cleaned under medical surveillance, which is best advised Doctors and medical practitioners all around the world have been trying to spread the message of preventing the use of cotton buds for ear cleaning. It is important that the message reach the greater part of the population. Spread it to your family, your closest friends, their friends, and as further, you can reach!

Do prevent a sore throat infection, a sore throat (pharyngitis) is normally a symptom of a bacterial or viral infection, such as the common cold. In around a third of cases, no cause for the sore throat can be found. If you have a sore throat, you may also have: swollen tonsils (tonsillitis)
fever
enlarged and tender glands in your neck
discomfort when swallowing I am a general physician who will prescribe you an appropriate treatment plan for your case, do reply back for medications. Being also a general physician, I prescribe both evidence based herbal as well as allopathic medicines complementing with dietary tips taking into account patient preferences.

Any report of PFT and allergy screening blood report to confirm asthma and allergy. I am not aware cipla has any rohaler with name SIN. Rotahalers can cause oral candidiasis if mouth hyegine is not proper, and osteoporosis if contains steroids.

You might be suffering from Migraine with aura symptoms or classic migraine. Since you are suffering from one and half year, get MRI scan of brain done. You need to be started on preventive medicines for migraine if the diagnosis is confirmed.
Follow these tips to get some relief;
1. Maintain regular sleep wake cycle, even on holiday's.
2. Don't skip meals. Take regular healthy diet with adequate fluids
3. Do not consume excess caffeine / carbohydrates / alcohol or smoke.
4. Exercise daily ( aerobics and cardiovascular)
5. Identify your headache trigger and try to avoid it.
6. Meditation and pranayam can help
Avoid excessive analgesics over a long period of time as they can aggravate headache (read health feed by me on lybrate on Medication Overuse Headace ).

The Eyeballs and the eyelids are the domain of the Ophthalmologist. Rest of the Orbit and Paranasal Sinuses as well, as the Lachrymal sac are best treated by an ENT, Head & Neck Surgeon as access to this region are always through the nose which is our field of expertise. Our expertise with the slender glass rod or flexible endoscopes is much admired by even Neurosurgeons to give them access to the inferior aspects of the brain through the nasal passages without needing to damage any vital structures had they approached the same area using the conventional burr-hole into the cranial vault!
A couple of my ENT Surgeon batchmates have also gone on to train in Neurosurgery having been preferred over the General Surgeon candidates by the interviewers for this very reason!

Nose bleed can be due to many reason like any mass(tumor) or polyp in the nose, deviated nasal septum, systemic illness like hypertension and bleeding disorders. U should consult an ent specialist to rule out any local pathology. U can use nasivion nasal drops 2-2-2-2.

You should take Belladona 30 and Merc. Sol. 30 thrice a day three drops in water for two days alternatively . Do gargles after every meal with fresh water and clear your throat. At night you should take boiled turmeric milk with sugar and and 10 drops if ghee pure daily fir three days. Avoid pickles, slice and oil.

The most common ear infections happen because of bacterial or viral growth in the middle ear, the part which lies just behind the ear drum. Middle-ear infections can be very painful and children are most commonly reported in children. Most of these infections are caused by the blockage of the Eustachian tube, which connects the ear and the throat, causing the build-up of fluids and swelling. Here is a guide to the most common forms of ear infections and their symptoms, ranging from the acute to the chronic.

Acute infections have intense symptoms but can be cured with time and treatment. They generally last for shorter durations.

In Chronic cases of infections, the patient complains of recurrent symptoms multiple times. Chronic ear infections have the potential of causing permanent damage to the ear.

Symptoms reported by most patients with Ear infections:

1. Pain in the ear (Mild to severe): This is caused due to increased pressure owing to the blockage of the Eustachian tube. Collection of fluid inside the ear would increase the intensity of pain in most cases. Children will keep tugging at their ear and most likely be cranky.
2. Redness and swelling:Both of these are inevitable accompanying symptoms in case of any infection in the body.
3. Oozing of the fluids: The blockage leads to the fluid being released from the ear which can be watery, thick yellow or mixed with blood depending on the severity and type of infection.
4. Fever
5. Difficulty in sleeping.
6. In some cases when the infection spreads, difficulty in balancing the body is experienced as body balance is maintained by ears.
7. The patient might also experience increased irritability.
8. Ear infections can also cause a hearing problem if the condition continues to go untreated.

Ear infections should be promptly dealt with to prevent long-term damages. So here is what should be done when you have ear pain symptoms.

1. Consult an ENT who will prescribe pain medication as the first line of treatment.
2. After the necessary tests are done, antibiotics are prescribed in most cases by the doctor. Other medications for palliative treatment (to ease the symptoms) are administered. However in a few rare cases, the infection might be because of non-bacterial causes in which antibiotics might not cure the state.
3. In case the problem keeps recurring, one must visit the doctor again and get further tests and treatment done.

As prevention is always better than cure, care should be taken to avoid all chances of carrying the infection to your ear. Maintain cleanliness in and around, especially in the case of children.